Boris Bogoslovsky Explained

Boris Basil Bogoslovsky (Russian: Борис Васильевич Богословский; 29 April 1890 – 2 December 1966) was a Russian-American teacher and United Nations official.^[1]

Bogoslovsky was born in Ryazan, Russian Empire. In 1920, he immigrated to the United States, where he became a naturalized citizen.^[2] He married a Swedish teacher, Christina Staël von Holstein, and the pair taught at the Cherry Lawn School, a progressive boarding school in Darien, Connecticut. In 1933, they became co-directors of the school. Bogoslovsky taught science there until 1945, when he joined the United Nations as a translator in the UN's Russian Language Section.^[2] He was also an observer and translator for the U.S. government at the Nuremberg Trials.^{[3] [4]}

He died in 1966 in Charleston, Illinois.^[1]

Works

• The technique of controversy: principles of dynamic logic, 1928. In the series The International Library of Psychology, Philosophy and Scientific Method.
• The ideal school, 1936.

Notes and References

1. News: Boris B. Bogoslovsky . 12 May 2024 . Journal Gazette . 2 December 1966 . Mattoon, Illinois . 3.
2. Christian E. Burckel, ed., Who's Who in the United Nations, 1951
3. http://www.cherrylawnschool.org/history/history.html Cherry Lawn School History
4. J. E. Bunting, Private independent schools: The American private schools for girls and boys, 1972, p.78